Shadowplay story
Odo and Dax investigate why a village's residents are disappearing. Directed by: Robert Scheerer. Story by: Robert Hewitt Wolfe.
18 total · 2 choice · 9 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| personal identity | choice | were the holographic Yaderan people? |
| virtual person | choice | holographic Yaderan |
| career choice | major | Jake pondered his professional future and about whether he really wanted to enter Starfleet Academy |
| disapproving parent | major | Miles told of his disapproving dad and Jake worried about his |
| escape from reality | major | the mastermind behind the simulation created it after he suffered lost all his family and friends in a Jem Hadar attack |
| father and son | major | Benjamin encouraged Jake to find his first job |
| living up to expectations | major | Jake worried Benjamin would be disappointed if he didn't join Starfleet Academy |
| shapeshifter | major | Odo's abilities were somehow important to the simulated little girl |
| the universe is a simulation | major | Much of what the simulated people knew was in fact a simulation inside a larger reality. |
| what if I found out I was a simulation | major | it was revealed to the simulated people that they were in fact holograms |